The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has officially reached an agreement with Florida’s Hillsborough County Fire and Rescue to ensure patient access to care and health equity following an...
UC Riverside Health experts have proposed that community health partnerships can combat the persistent wave of vaccine misinformation, giving public health officials access to greater public messaging...
A new study suggests that structural racism is causing worse surgical outcomes among Black men.
Researchers out of UCLA found in a study recently published in BMJ that historical lack of quality...
More research is adding to the evidence indicating that the weathering hypothesis has some merit, with new data from Boston University showing that experiences with racism have led to racial health...
A new study out of Tulane University confirms what many may have been able to guess about patient access to care: paid sick leave policies increase preventive screening rates because they give patients...
Black women of childbearing age face a twofold risk of uncontrolled high blood pressure compared to their white counterparts, which not only fuels racial health disparities but also heightens the risk...
A third of healthcare consumers are being left susceptible to public health threats and complications from untreated chronic illnesses as the US stares down primary care access problems, according to a...
A new study from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine shows how community health workers helped patients achieve optimal blood pressure control, underscoring the role these non-clinical workers play in...
organizations to reduce social determinants of health barriers in under-resourced areas.
The American Heart Association, through its Social Impact Fund, will invest $400,000 in two Utah...
The medical industry is far from achieving racial health equity, according to a new report from Accenture. But it could be.
The report, which outlines some of the stark racial health disparities still...
It’s a well documented fact that cancer screening rates went down during the pandemic, after offices had to defer patient access to preventive screenings to both preserve the medical workforce...
Two preliminary investigations of long COVID are indicating that there are health disparities in the long-term illness, just as there were disparities in coronavirus infections at the start of the...
The most successful pediatric obesity prevention programs take place over a stretch of time and seek to promote both access to more nutritious foods and more exercise, findings that researchers from...
A recent study showed that rates of follow-up care are lacking among children with mental health emergencies, underscoring the need for stronger patient engagement after hospitalization.
These...
The risk of hospital readmission after a heart attack is markedly higher for Black people than White, a trend researchers said in JAMA Network Open should prompt further investigation into how systemic...
Meeting patient needs for mental healthcare access will require industry leaders, clinicians, and healthcare policymakers to focus on giving clinicians the tools needed to meet patients in any care...
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study sheds light on the geographic health disparities in mental healthcare access for veterans, prompting calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
In rural America, pregnant people experience substantial health inequities, putting them at risk for maternal morbidity and mortality. New data from Michigan Medicine suggests...
Healthcare has zeroed in on food deserts for their impact on health, but what about food swamps? Food swamps—areas with a higher density of fast-food and junk food establishments—can also...
Neighborhood walkability has the potential to boost physical activity and improve BMI, two key factors for addressing obesity. But neighborhood conditions like safety, another key element of...
